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Definition of "cephalosporin" []

  • Any of various broad-spectrum antibiotics, closely related to the penicillins, that were originally derived from the fungus Cephalosporium acremonium. (noun)

American Heritage(R) Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyright (c) 2011 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

Use "cephalosporin" in a sentence
  • "Alternately maudlin and accusatory, the letter plays on terrorism fears by calling a cephalosporin ban a "food security issue" affecting "the number of animals available for the food supply.""
  • "But eventually those stopped working, too, and in 2007 the CDC changed its guidelines and recommended treatment with yet another class of antibiotics, called cephalosporin."
  • "Cephalexin is in a group of drugs called cephalosporin antibiotics."